Sumner is charged with stealing a 2012 Ford Escape from the Forgotten Harvest parking lot at 21800 Greenfield around noon Wednesday.

Police said the Escape belonged to a Detroit woman, 18, who drove to an orientation meeting at the facility with several other teens and young adults. Sumner was among the group of people attending the meeting.

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Forgotten Harvest is a well-known nonprofit organization that fights hunger by rescuing surplus, prepared and perishable food from restaurants and stores, then donates it to emergency food providers, according to the group’s website. Sumner is not a volunteer with organization, police said.

“When the victim and her friends realized they couldn’t take their cell phones into the orientation meeting they decided to put them all in the victim’s vehicle,” said Oak Park Public Safety Lt. Samantha Kretzschmar.

Witnesses told police that the suspect abruptly left shortly after the women returned from putting their cell phones in the vehicle. The women noticed later that the Ford Escape was missing.

“That’s when the victim realized her car keys were missing from her coat pocket,” Kretzschmar said. “One of the women had a Find My iPhone app that showed the suspect had the stolen vehicle in the area of Seven Mile and Hawthorne in Detroit.”

Oak Park police officers located the stolen Ford Escape and found the suspect hiding in a closet in a nearby house, police said. The keys to the stolen vehicle were also recovered at the house, Kretzschmar said.

Sumner faces up to five years in prison if convicted of the auto theft. She is scheduled for a pre-exam conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Oak Park District Court.